As MTV Web News Goes Shorter, Traffic Pops Up

A revamped editorial approach seems to have breathed new life into MTV News on the Web.

Earlier this year, the section’s editors began carving up their text stories into smaller, blog-like entries with more provocative headlines. They took a similar approach to video, breaking longer interviews up into shorter snippets that were easily shared among users.

The result has been a flood of new users and traffic. During third  quarter 2008, the section averaged 2.5 million unique video viewers and 5.3

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